Daniil and David Liberman

Libermans Co. Founders Product Science, Humanism. Ex-Directors of Product @Snapchat

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

"... building a world in which everyone can flourish requires shared responsibility and courage. No one can single-handedly bear the weight of the challenges the world is facing, just as no one is so weak that they cannot play their part, for “power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor 12:9). All are given their own section of the wall..." - Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas

[Gonka @gonka_ai]

AI deflation is starting to hit.

@nebiusai is rapidly increasing its GPU prices:
H100: $2.95/hr → $3.85/hr
B200: $5.50/hr → $7.15/hr

This is what the capital shift into AI looks like.

As intelligence becomes abundant, most goods, labor, and even fiat currencies may fall in relative value against AI infrastructure assets: compute, energy, chips, data centers.

AI infrastructure is becoming monetary infrastructure.

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

@PeterMcCormack Exactly, the feeling is incredible. This is the moment when AI stops being a chatbot and becomes part of the company’s nervous system.
But it also shows dependency

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

We are officially past the point where decentralized AI inference is only a philosophical argument

Over the last 24 hours, Gonka processed hundreds of thousands of inferences and billions of AI tokens across the network. Across a decentralized network of real hardware built by dozens of participants - companies and individuals

This is still early and rough around the edge, people are still hitting limits, but when they do, it’s another milestone for the network. But this is exactly how new infrastructure starts. Perfection is not important, usability is. It is already real, being used, and improving faster each week

The demand for inference is already coming from millions of developers, agents, builders, and users around the world. The question is whether this demand will keep flowing into a few centralized providers or whether it will drift towards an open, verifiable, decentralized alternative

If you want decentralized AI to exist, use it. Try the inference, build with it, help other people connect, launch a swarm of agents, and try to bump into the limit to push it further. Every request, every test, every fix, every GPU, every new user makes the network stronger

Bitcoin started this way. This is how open infrastructure wins

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

Thank you, @PeterMcCormack, for the opportunity to discuss this important topic and share our thoughts with your audience regarding what might happen without the decentralization of AI (including the darkest scenarios).
Watch and beware

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

"We're not going to even know it's slavery."

The Liberman brothers (@DaLiberman) escaped Russia and sold their last company to Snapchat. Now they say we have 2 years before AI replaces us - and we're paying the corporations to do it.

Full episode 👇

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

Our conversation with Alexander Sokolovskiy, seen by 1M+ Russian viewers, is now in English

It’s about more than AI. It’s about intelligence becoming infrastructure.
The key question:

Who owns it?

If AI is controlled by a few corporations and states, the future stays permissioned

Open models, distributed compute, shared intelligence

Let’s build that future
https://t.co/cbwKATlTIM

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

@p_volnov launched a great product as part of YC 🔥
Congrats Peter, you rock ⚡️

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

HEVN (@hevn_finance) is building a “Brex for non-US companies” — an alternative financial platform that lets businesses open virtual bank accounts in 8 banks worldwide, use USD cards with cashback for Google/Meta ads, and store funds in USD.

Congrats on the launch, @p_volnov and @Nikitadigital10!

https://t.co/yW9J3k0jR5

[Gonka @gonka_ai]

‘The world is changing.

AI—the biggest frontier models—can fit on a tiny flash card. They are essentially copyable, so every human on Earth can have them.

We can actually bring abundance to billions of people around the world if we manage to make these technologies universally accessible.’

@DaLiberman at LA Hacks 2026.

https://t.co/DurrDaoS9G

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

DeAI is not built on technology alone. It also depends on transparency, trust, and responsibility to the community around it

Periods of strain are when principles are most severely tested. They rarely collapse in a single moment. More often, they erode gradually, through small concessions, accumulated compromises, and decisions made for immediate convenience

If DeAI is meant to differ from centralized corporate systems, that difference has to be visible in practice, not only in language

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

Proud to be early supporters of @Pron

Congratulations, @antlevandowski!

[Pronto @ProntoAI]

🚨 BIG NEWS: Pronto has officially been acquired by Atoms, the physical AI company founded by @travisk. We are incredibly proud to step in as the core technology engine of the newly formed Atoms Mining division.

Read the full announcement: https://t.co/fovua0xvWo

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

Anthropic has not released its most powerful model to the public and has given access only to a closed group of partners - Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia

This is not an exception. It is a pattern

Not long ago, public leaders in the industry were saying that AI would be accessible to everyone, that it would expand human potential.
In reality, we are returning to a familiar structure: a closed club, selective access, control

This is not about safety, no matter how it is framed.
It reflects a deeper logic of elites - dividing the world into insiders and outsiders and controlling access to key resources

In the past, those resources were oil, energy, finance, water.
Now intelligence and compute have been added to that list

And the outcome is always the same: not abundance, but competition for access, gatekeeping, constant tension and conflict

AI is only accelerating this dynamic.
For the first time, this is not just about resources, but about a system that shapes thinking, decisions, and the structure of society itself

If this layer remains centralized, we do not get a future of abundance, but a more advanced form of dependency

So the question is no longer about technology.
It is about architecture

Either AI remains in the hands of a few players, and the world is ultimately divided between those who have access and those who do not

Or an alternative layer emerges - decentralized compute, open-weight models, distributed infrastructure

This is the only way to break the cycle in which resources inevitably concentrate in the hands of a few

Otherwise, history will repeat itself. And we will find ourselves back in the Thucydides Trap

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

Happening Now

[GAIB @gaib_ai]

Join us for a discussion with Daniil Liberman @DaLiberman, co-founder of @gonka_ai, on the upcoming AI Supercycle in 2026.

He’ll be joined by @Arben, Operating Partner and
@konyk001 co-founder and CEO at GAIB.

📅 Jan 8th | 6PM PST
🔗 https://t.co/fyJfAPYRN9

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

10k+ now 🔥

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

Thanks to the amazing Discord community of 4,000 people, over $100M/year worth of compute joined @gonka_ai just three months after its launch.

And today @BitfuryGroup joined the common effort to build the world’s largest truly decentralized AI compute network. With a $50M injection, the leader in decentralized infrastructure and the creator of the first industrial-grade ASIC for Bitcoin mining has placed its bet on https://t.co/RYB8EdKqRR

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

Jon us 🎙️

[sam lessin 🏴‍☠️ @lessin]

The Libermans were one of our first 'creator style' investments at @slow where we bet on them holistically to do interesting importand and different things vs. just backing a single project / company. Super cool to see them innovating here and exploring edge ideas.

[George Kikvadze @BitfuryGeorge]

.@BitfuryGroup just made its largest decentralized AI compute bet to date: a $50M phase-one commitment into next-generation GPU infrastructure.

This is why I believe the architecture behind GONKA represents a ‘Bitcoin moment’ for AI 👇

https://t.co/fIvJIRfMqZ

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

Compute Sovereignty

We’ve been flying a lot lately (hello from London:) and meeting with people who shape the future of their countries, regions and industries. Ministers, fund leaders, executives, crypto OGs, universities, infrastructure teams.

And almost everywhere we see the same reality.
Even if a country or a business has the budget for premium GPUs, buying them directly is nearly impossible without external approval.

To receive an NVIDIA allocation, you first need authorization from the U.S. State Department.
One approval chain. One protocol, regardless of which country you’re from or how much capital you have.

These approvals take months, sometimes quarters.
There’s a case that has been ongoing for more than a year.

Countries are beginning to realize: lack of access to compute means lack of sovereignty — and possibly lack of a future.

When we speak with decision makers, we see the demand for Compute Sovereignty emerge right in the middle of the conversation.

This concerns everyone, because compute is becoming a new form of independence.

States once fought for natural resources.
Today, they face a critical need to own and develop their intellectual infrastructure.

And this doesn’t apply only to governments.
Companies, universities, regions and startups will be split into those who have access to compute and those who will be forced to ask and wait for permission.

Compute Sovereignty is about who remains a subject in the new world.

This is why, seeing where everything is headed, we started building Gonka two years ago.
We are creating a network where compute belongs to participants, not to two centers of power.
Where intelligence becomes infrastructure, not an instrument of control.

We built the protocol.
The race has begun.

Join us
https://t.co/vY9hg1IFrA

https://t.co/ovtlty6LbV

[Daniil and David Liberman @DaLiberman]

A world where compute is open, not owned. Now on the pages of Forbes

Bitcoin liberated money.
Decentralized AI will liberate human thinking

📰 Read on Forbes:
https://t.co/5ZFpheKAiZ

[Bitcoin.com News @BitcoinNews]

Beyond the Bubble: Gonka Protocol's David Liberman on Decentralized AI, ASICs, and the Future of Compute @DaLiberman @gonka_ai
https://t.co/bZL9b8Zk4P